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Re: xserver-s3 stoped working?



On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:57:18PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 08:25:54PM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote:
> > >>>>> In <[🔎] 20030526104317.GY27449@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> 
> > >>>>>	Daniel Stone <dstone@kde.org> wrote:
> > >> If this is indeed a Trio32, as it semes it is, it should be supported in
> > >> 4.2.1-6, which is currently in sid (unstable).
> > 
> >  I believe that XFree86 4.x's s3 driver is only support PCI(or AGP) bus.
> >  (e.g S3Probe() in s3_driver.c) So, VL bus/ISA bus card will not work
> >  with the driver.
> 
> Oh, my bad; thanks for clearing that up, Ishikawa-san. I can't see why
> XFree86 would suddenly start failing, though - has xfree86-v3 even been
> updated at all lately?

No, and it doesn't even build from source on some architectures.  I've
begged for a deputy to handle 3.3.6 more than once over the past year
and a half and no one has stepped up.

One 4.3.0-1 is out of the oven, I plan to haul 3.3.6 into the repo so it
can be team-maintained.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    It may be difficult to to determine
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    where religious beliefs end and
branden@debian.org                 |    mental illness begins.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Elaine Cassel

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